At sunset, on the rooftop of the Lone Library by the sea in Aranya, a group of people are having a party. From here, the story begins.
Inspired by Yu Hua’s novel City of Fiction, the performance traces a world from a century ago. In this imagined landscape, Lin Xiangfu, a man from the North, and A Qiang and Xiao Mei, a wild brother and sister from the South, are brought together by the currents of fate. Only the three of them know of a place called Wencheng — a place that truly exists, holding within it both suffering and love.
Who could resist such dreamlike entanglements of emotion?
“If you leave again, I will find you, no matter how far to the ends of the earth.”When they meet again in Wencheng, it is already their final farewell. Wencheng becomes a moral landscape of literature — an absurd mirage on the horizon. The three offer themselves to it, and through their sacrifice, love endures. As the world continues to shift and transform, a new form of life emerges — relaxed, unhurried — moving through the noise of reality, fulfilling an ancient longing, and stepping quietly into the future.